Originally Posted by
Daelak
This is revisionist pablum, libertarian thought emerged in the US as a response against desegregation and civil rights, bankrolled by wealthy segregationists who, like the wealthy southern politicians of antebellum south, created fake science like phrenology, paid pastors to interpret slavery and inequality as divinely inspired, and themselves pushed white supremacy and dominion of non-propertied peoples as a philosophy of limited government and maximum liberty. The wealthy segregationists like Volcker, Koch, etc. paid people like Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, to make an economic case against desegregation and equal rights without using the words of George Wallace.